Northern Consolidated Airlines was created in 1945 through the merger of 7 small bush
airlines. It built up a network in southern Alaska,
and added more feeder routes when Alaska
Airlines and Pacific Northern Airlines dropped a number in the early 1960s.
NCA merged with
the other
main feeder operator in Alaska, Wien Alaska Airlines, in April 1968 to form Wien
Consolidated Airlines, which became Wien Air Alaska in 1973.